Integrating Personal Knowledge Information with Collective Information Repositories

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The global brain should preserve our individual abilities to contribute. Negotiating every edit would be a hindrance, but occasional collaboration and improvement are ideal. When we find a version we love, we can focus on our favorite parts and others can support and contribute in a meaningful way.

Jerry Michalski helps organizations become more trustworthy by exploring their language, processes, and intentions. That’s fascinating in itself — but I wanted to talk with him primarily because he curates an online resource called Jerry’s Brain, a deep repository of interconnected thoughts. He’s worked on Jerry’s Brain for a quarter of a century, longer than any other such experiment I’m aware of. So, I wanted to find out why and how he does this.

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